Quote of the Day
Between 2017 and 2021, a total of 1,074,022 firearms were reported stolen in the U.S., averaging around 200,000 annually. However, these figures are estimates, as criminals typically do not report their illicit activities to law enforcement agencies for research purposes.
While this number seems exceptionally high, the truth is that less than a fraction (only 0.042%) of civilian-owned firearms in the United States are stolen each year. Therefore, it is safe to say that the vast majority of gun owners are, in fact, taking precautions to ensure thieves do not acquire their property.
Stolen guns in America are used in a significantly higher number of crimes than legally purchased firearms. However, many stolen guns are never used in crimes.
Cassandra McBride
August 2024
Stolen Gun Statistics 2024 (Recover Rates & Crime Usage) (ammo.com)
Interesting research.
“Stolen guns in America are used in a significantly higher number of crimes than legally purchased firearms.”
Ya, stealing a gun is criminal, like crossing the border without permission.
What’ca think they’re stealing them for, if not more crime?
” However, many stolen guns are never used in crimes.”
All right, now just how is she going to know that? Not all criminals leave the gun at the crime scene for police to record.
That, and the fact that in CA. possession of a stolen firearm is a misdemeanor. That might not even get charged or recorded.
And don’t get started on affirmative action hires doing records work, or not.
Only thing that surprises me is that the cartels haven’t set up machine shoppes and started making their own weapons and ammo.
Good example showing that “time to crime” statistics published by a certain alphabet agency don’t necessarily mean violent crime, or really any crime at all–just law enforcement recovery.
“Therefore, it is safe to say that the vast majority of gun owners are, in fact, taking precautions to ensure thieves do not acquire their property.”
The implication here seems to be that people who’ve had guns stolen are not “taking precautions to ensure thieves do not acquire their property”
As someone who was robbed about 8 years ago and had 10 or so gun stolen, I beg to differ. There is no practical way to secure your guns in such a way as to make them impossible to steal. My guns were in a safe, in my locked home, with two big dogs inside and someone coming by the house twice a day (we were on vacation) to check on things and let the dogs out.
Didn’t stop them. They robbed my house in broad daylight and basically destroyed the safe (as well as destroying a good bit of the room the safe was installed in) to get to the guns. Luckily they didn’t hurt the dogs…just locked them in the garage.
Unless the concept is that only people rich enough to be able to afford to turn their house into Fort Knox should be allowed to have guns, there is simply no way to completely guarantee they’ll never be stolen.
Implying that the victims of a crime were somehow negligent by being victimized is pretty damn offensive when you come right down to it.
BTW: I’m pretty sure I know (generally speaking) who did the deed and gave the police a few pieces of key evidence that they never bothered to follow up on. They filed a report and gave me the report number for my insurance company and otherwise seemed completely uninterested in investigating, recovering the missing guns or making an arrest.
Incidentally, last year two of the missing guns were recovered when they were stumbled upon completely by luck in a storage unit that the rent hadn’t been paid on. Luckily, one of them was the only one I was truly heartbroken about losing: A Colt 1878 Double Action Frontier .45 revolver that was my Grandfather’s, then father’s and then mine. It’s now back at home where it belongs.